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The Office of Inspector General recently modified the personal services and management contracts safe harbor of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute...

To narrow issues and promote settlement in "oversized patent cases," on July 31, 2017, Chief Judge Leonard Stark of the District of Delaware issued an order that indicates a preference for bellwether trials ...

Rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are a new provider type that will allow Medicare to pay for emergency department and other outpatient hospital services in rural areas beginning on January 1, 2023...

The year 2014 witnessed several notable developments in the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Georgina Espinoza, an employee of Warehouse Demo Services ("Warehouse"), worked in a Costco and performed demonstrations of products. Warehouse did not lease the space...

The new Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (the Act), recently signed into law by President Trump, includes extensive Medicare, Medicaid, and other health policy and payment provisions.

As the final days of 2013 passed and the sunset of the Stark Law exception and anti-kickback law safe harbor for electronic health record (EHR) donations loomed nearer, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued last-minute final regulations to extend the expiration date of the provisions through 2021, subject to certain exclusions

On December 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced that Frank Richard Ahlgren III was sentenced to two years in prison for filing a false tax return underreporting gains from selling $3.7 million in Bitcoin.

Recent enforcement activity has underlined that fair employment monitoring in Northern Ireland is not optional...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Act"), signed into law by President Obama in March, provided for a number of noteworthy healthcare reforms, including provisions establishing a Medicare pilot project for the creation of accountable care organizations ("ACO").

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published updated data regarding settlements made under the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP)...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published updated data regarding settlements made under the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP), an important mechanism...

One of the most significant recent trends in the healthcare industry has been the increased migration of physicians from independent private practitioners to employees of hospitals.

Hospitals, both nonprofit and for-profit, are increasingly sharing control over profitable healthcare delivery assets with physicians. Nonprofit hospitals in particular are struggling with how best to retain their physician referral base when the hospitals’ tax-exempt status and the federal and state anti-kickback and self-referral (Stark) laws make sharing ownership and revenue with physicians more difficult to accomplish.

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, on March 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued nationwide blanket waivers of sanctions under the federal physician self-referral law...